When other people use these words to describe your talents, it’s OK. When you do it, you just sound like a little bit of a twit
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
What exactly is a healthy work/life balance?
In today’s increasingly demanding work culture, long hours, skipping lunch breaks, taking on extra work and being in constant communication is gradually becoming the norm. But while this is happening, is it any surprise that stress induced illness is on the up and people are becoming more dissatisfied and unable to fit in their personal life?
Optimising your workplace for engaged and productive staff
With the UK’s ‘productivity gap’ the largest it has been for almost 20 years, SMEs that can engage and motivate staff will stand out from the crowd.
LinkedIn Endorsements: Useful or a Waste of Time?
LinkedIn is a great way to sell yourself and your business, but one of the things I’ve been asked about a lot recently, is the LinkedIn ‘Endorsement’ feature. Added to a few profiles for testing last year before they rolled it out fully this has been a topic that comes up recently whenever LinkedIn is mentioned.
Thrive Back to Work
Going back into the job market can be a very scary experience. Whether you have had a child recently or you have just taken a break and lost your confidence, nobody finds it easy. Janice Haddon, Managing Director of Morgan Redwood, reveals her professional top tips on how to gain back your confidence and thrive in work….
Bodies & bums cost money can you go virtual?
Ok, so an odd title for a business blog, but I thought that I would share this as I have just written it in a note for a board meeting where our MD is proposing her expansion plans for the coming year.
Unpaid internships as an alternative to Graduate Schemes
With University tuition fees having been tripled in the last year and youth unemployment at its highest level since the 1980’s, there are benefits of looking towards less traditional means of employment for young people, especially in small to medium sized businesses.
You’ve been offered a redress – what do you do now?
Interest rate hedging products (IRHPs) have been branded as ‘the next PPI scandal’ by many, after leaving thousands of SMEs out of pocket. Over the past 10 years, many high street banks sold complicated IRHPs to SMEs wanting a loan, as an insurance product to protect the company should interest rates rise above 5 per cent.
Cameron puts sustainable recovery in hands of entrepreneurs & business
It was nice to hear direct from the Prime Minister that the way most of us in the business community go about things is not just part of the solution to the economic blip of the past five years, but the antidote.
Who’s Accessing Your Business Data? You Should Know the Answer
Businesses are faced with a new reality of prying eyes on their data. Thanks to Edward Snowden’s exposure around PRISM (a surveillance data mining program operated by the United States National Security Agency) revealing a business’ worst fear that data in the cloud is not private, companies are forced to reevaluate the way they share and store their data.
Painful Lessons from a Dragon’s Divorce Trauma
We are used to seeing entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne firmly in control on Dragons’ Den as he dishes out business advice to embryonic companies. So it is something of shock to learn that a painful divorce pushed the serial entrepreneur and business angel to the brink of suicide.
Is a flotation right for your business?
Is a flotation right for your business?
You may have seen in the press recently comment that more and more companies are considering an IPO on the back of improving economic sentiment. This rosier outlook has encouraged some large companies, most recently Foxtons, to float.
‘The Party Of Small Business’ So Says Miliband
As the Labour Conference ends and the Tory conference begins, Ed Miliband’s speech attempting to lay out Labour’s ideals and plans for the future has been seen as one of his more noteworthy oratory attempts.
The future of business is flexible
Flexible office space is being recognised as a cost-effective solution for forward thinking businesses looking for new and dynamic ways to work across the country.
How to undertake a Disciplinary Investigation
It’s the one question I get again and again from clients. That call of ‘Ive just been told Joe has done x,y and z, what do I do now?’ and my response is always ‘you need to undertake an investigation into the incident and make a decision after that’.